Mark Chambers was a successful computer systems manager before suffering a head injury in 1999. Soon after, he was institutionalized at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, a large nursing facility in San Francisco.
“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life here. I want to be part of the world outside,” Chambers said in a 2006 press release by Disability Rights California, then known as Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PAI).